From mtang at snf.stanford.edu Mon Jul 7 08:55:07 2003
From: mtang at snf.stanford.edu (Mary Tang)
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 08:55:07 -0700
Subject: Software?
Message-ID: <3F0997DB.BB70ECA2@snf.stanford.edu>
Hi guys --
I followed your advice and got a new PC (and it's TINY!) Could I bother
you for a few things? First, could I borrow the installation CD's for
LEdit? Second, I would like to wipe my old PC and place it in the CAD
room for people to use for LEdit -- is this OK with you? (I was
planning on putting Windows 2K, LEdit, Acrobat Reader, and not much
else.)
What do you think?
Mary
--
Mary X. Tang, Ph.D.
National Nanofabrication Users' Network
Stanford Nanofabrication Facility
CIS Room 136, Mail Code 4070
Stanford, CA 94305
(650)723-9980
mtang at snf.stanford.edu
From bmurray at snf.stanford.edu Thu Jul 10 00:08:20 2003
From: bmurray at snf.stanford.edu (Bill Murray)
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 00:08:20 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: crystal and lattice
Message-ID:
Interested Lab Staff,
Ted left me a message today indicating that although crystal was up,
he was unable to get access to the TYCOM. There were a number of
problems including two full disks on crystal, two full partitions on
lattice, corrupt file systems on lattice, and physical faults on the
disk drive on lattice. With some work, I was able to repair all the
problems except the disk fault on lattice. However, I believe that
lattice can be used for everything we need: TYCOM functions and furnace
status.
Since I had to spend some quality time with lattice in the computer
room, I did a little sleuthing. Lattice is a MicroVAX 3600 which was
first introduced by DEC in September of 1987 (16 years ago). The
current lattice hardware was installed at CIS on June 2, 1988 (over
15 years ago) and has been running continuously since that time.
Lattice has a CVAX microprocessor (90ns) and 32 MB of ECC main memory.
Lattice is running a version of the ULTRIX operating system released
in early 1990 (13 years ago). This is amazing! We can probably start
charging admission to see this antique still in operation.
Here's my point: we cannot rely upon this machine any longer! We must
make other arrangements to handle these TYCOM and furnace functions.
Next time it fails, we'll need to power it down and haul it to the dump.
Thanks,
Bill
From bmurray at snf.stanford.edu Wed Jul 16 11:26:17 2003
From: bmurray at snf.stanford.edu (Bill Murray)
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 11:26:17 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: sunray problems
Message-ID:
John and Mike,
I'm in the process of rebooting the sunray. I got a call from Nancy and
email from Mary. I couldn't log on at any of the sunrays. On the sunray
console, there was a message indicating that swap was full. The machine
was in bad shape, I could do very little other than reboot. However, I
did do df -k with the following results:
root at sunray # df -k
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 7695670 2964947 4653767 39% /
/proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0 6638682 5249041 1323255 80% /home
swap 12456 12456 0 100% /tmp
/proc 0 0 0 0% /var/opt/SUNWbb/root/proc
/tmp/SUNWut/sessions 12456 12456 0 100% /var/opt/SUNWbb/root/tmp/SUNWut/sessions
/tmp/SUNWut/units 12456 12456 0 100% /var/opt/SUNWbb/root/tmp/SUNWut/units
atu.snffab.stanford.edu:/home/User
30248368 3742336 26203544 13% /mnt/home/User
atu.snffab.stanford.edu:/home/Devel
20166016 4315776 15648576 22% /mnt/home/Devel
I also did a .version at the ok (OBP) prompt to check versions of the
boot PROMs on our system boards. It listed three boards in slots (?)
1, 7, and 9. I didn't want to stop the reboot to write down the details,
but the versions were something like:
board 1 version 1.1.xx
board 7 version 3.2.26
board 9 version 3.2.29
Clearly one of the boards has an PROM version that is way out of date.
I did note from a quick search that improperly flash updating EPROMs
can void waranties. We better get Sun out here to fix this one.
Bill
From jwc at snf.stanford.edu Mon Jul 28 11:12:29 2003
From: jwc at snf.stanford.edu (James Conway)
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 11:12:29 -0700
Subject: Trouble with logins on shades... SYSADMIN response requested
Message-ID: <3F25678D.452191F0@snf.stanford.edu>
Greetings All,
We are still encountering difficulties with user logins and processes on
Shades.stanford.edu.
After your recent repairs I have attempted to add several users onto
shades and have run into problems:
users added:
cshen chongfei shen
sumita Sumita Pennathur
These logins start but hang up after launching the CDE environment.
After a few minutes your get the normal screen view -- but immediately a
pink pop up box launches that has no dialog in the box and if the [OK]
button is functional it clears the box and triggers what may be a core
dump and recovery.
Request:
1. Could you please take a look at the setup of shades and see what
might be causing these problems. I have a wait list of people to add to
shades and many other current users cannot get their work done on the
system these last two weeks.
2. Could you please see if you can locate account user: sumita I had
expected this to be added to home2 (explicitly /export/home2 ) but
cannot locate her files there!
3. Please let me know when we can resume operations as normal and begin
to migrate new users on to shades again.
Many Thanks,
James Conway
From bmurray at snf.stanford.edu Wed Jul 30 15:01:06 2003
From: bmurray at snf.stanford.edu (Bill Murray)
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 15:01:06 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: link computer to the printer
In-Reply-To: <3F2837C5.C66F920B@snf.stanford.edu>
Message-ID:
Yahong,
Jason has set up a web site which addresses common CIS-related computer
questions. If you go to http://cis-net.stanford.edu/ and select "Printing",
you will find detailed instructions on printing to CIS printers from
different operating systems.
Bill
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Yahong Yao wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> I am using the net work outside your office area. How to link my laptop
> with the printer agaist Mary's office? Thanks.
>
> Yahong
>
From bmurray at snf.stanford.edu Thu Jul 31 14:41:32 2003
From: bmurray at snf.stanford.edu (Bill Murray)
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:41:32 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: New OS- feedback (fwd)
Message-ID:
John and Mike,
I asked Eric about the performance of sunstar. He's an observant user,
and I thought the info would be helpful. See his response below.
Bill
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:25:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Eric Perozziello
To: Bill Murray
Subject: Re: New OS- feedback
Hi Bill,
It certainly didn't seem any slower to me.
Sunray has seemed very slow lately, so maybe I'm
comparing it to that, and I've only used the
new system for one day. But it certainly
seems fine.
Thanks,
-Eric
From bmurray at snf.stanford.edu Thu Jul 31 15:38:34 2003
From: bmurray at snf.stanford.edu (Bill Murray)
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:38:34 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: coral logging in problem
In-Reply-To: <3F29931E.8020506@snf.stanford.edu>
Message-ID:
Randy,
When I switch to your account, I have a similar problem. It appears
that your .login, .cshrc, or .profile are starting up a process that
hangs. Have you made any changes to these lately?
Bill
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Randy True wrote:
> Bill,
>
> I seem to be alone in not being able to login to coral. I type in my
> username and password and the Welcome screen comes up but stays there
> for quite a while (like 5min) then the screen goes black and seems
> locked up. I tried with a card and without and on 3 terminals.
> Any ideas?
>
> -_Randy (login true)
>
>
From bmurray at snf.stanford.edu Thu Jul 31 17:11:47 2003
From: bmurray at snf.stanford.edu (Bill Murray)
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:11:47 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: coral logging in problem
In-Reply-To: <3F29931E.8020506@snf.stanford.edu>
Message-ID:
Randy,
I notice that in your .profile that you use tcsh. This may be causing a
problem on our new platform. I've commented out that line in .profile.
Could you try logging in again?
Thanks,
Bill
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Randy True wrote:
> Bill,
>
> I seem to be alone in not being able to login to coral. I type in my
> username and password and the Welcome screen comes up but stays there
> for quite a while (like 5min) then the screen goes black and seems
> locked up. I tried with a card and without and on 3 terminals.
> Any ideas?
>
> -_Randy (login true)
>
>
From bmurray at snf.stanford.edu Thu Jul 31 23:09:11 2003
From: bmurray at snf.stanford.edu (Bill Murray)
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 23:09:11 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: coral logging in problem (fwd)
Message-ID:
John and Mike,
I'm not sure why tcsh is causing problems, but I bet there are some other
lab members who use it.
Bill
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:37:37 -0700
From: Randy True
To: Bill Murray
Subject: Re: coral logging in problem
It's working now. I don't even know what tcsh is so let's just leave it
commented out. Thanks for your help.
Randy
Bill Murray wrote:
>Randy,
>
>I notice that in your .profile that you use tcsh. This may be causing a
>problem on our new platform. I've commented out that line in .profile.
>Could you try logging in again?
>
>Thanks,
>Bill
>
>On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Randy True wrote:
>
>
>
>>Bill,
>>
>>I seem to be alone in not being able to login to coral. I type in my
>>username and password and the Welcome screen comes up but stays there
>>for quite a while (like 5min) then the screen goes black and seems
>>locked up. I tried with a card and without and on 3 terminals.
>>Any ideas?
>>
>>-_Randy (login true)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>